Quickly, let me add that this feature (the new Tryout feature) is limited to webfonts that we offer, so keeping this page open as a reference to what will work is advised: FontShop’s Webfonts. I also recommend against pasting text into the Tryout feature, and also, you should use a modern desktop browser. Going against this advice (as I have as part of testing the feature) will reveal what remains to be fixed, however, the feature’s failure to deliver the expected result looks a lot more like it’s simply not responding to your input. Sticking to options you can be somewhat confident will work will give you a much more positive experience with this tool. Today is May 23, 2013 and the above is all subject to change. Now on to Kade and Freight Micro.

Reading about Kade, the concept comes from lettering on ships and docks in the Netherlands, an engineer’s approach to letter making. Getting my own good look at the face, I see it doing well in the portrayal of the idea of technical subjects, such as math and sciences. Freight Micro is one optical size of Freight (serif) drawn specifically to function at around 6 pt and below, and part of the larger Freight Super Family.

The thing that really unifies this combination is its attention to the relationship between interior and exterior contours, hard lines wrapped with taut, smooth ones. In Kade, this is mainly a stylistic decision. In Freight Micro, similar results were arrived at under the constraints of performance at very small sizes. It’s fine, by the way to use a typeface intended for small sizes at larger ones, though be careful of it falling apart. The other way around (using type drawn for large sizes to set text) generally doesn’t work.